Amanda Milling: Covid will make May’s local elections unusual.  But they’re happening – and they matter.  Let’s get ready for them now.

Amanda Milling: Covid will make May’s local elections unusual. But they’re happening – and they matter. Let’s get ready for them now.

Amanda Milling is co-Chairman of the Conservative Party and is MP for Cannock Chase. Elections are the cornerstone of our democracy: they give you the opportunity to have your say on everything from your bin collections to the number of police on your streets. However, last year saw our democracy delayed – as we took…

Gimson, Gimson, Gimson…and Gimson.  My Coronavirus experience, fifty calls from test and trace – and what I learnt.

Gimson, Gimson, Gimson…and Gimson. My Coronavirus experience, fifty calls from test and trace – and what I learnt.

“I’m sorry,” I said, “I can’t spend the rest of the morning talking about this idiotic mistake.” Generally speaking, I try not to be rude to people who ring me on official business. They have a living to earn, and cannot be held responsible for the scripts which they are required to read out, before…

Oborne condemns Johnson as a liar, and cannot understand why many voters believe the PM is telling the truth

Oborne condemns Johnson as a liar, and cannot understand why many voters believe the PM is telling the truth

The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne Boris Johnson is a liar. This charge is often made by the Prime Minister’s critics, and Peter Oborne makes it with tremendous vehemence: “Standards of truth telling, I will prove, collapsed at the precise moment Boris…